India Migration Report 2018: Migrants in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367733247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 338 str.

S. Irudaya Rajan

Opis

India Migration Report 2018 looks at Indian migrants in Europe and their lived experiences. It looks at how over the last few decades, the European Union has emerged as the preferred destination for Indian migrants surpassing the United States of America—and is home to Indian students and high-skilled professionals.

Spis treści

1. The European Union as a Preferred Destination of Indian Migrants? Prospects, Patterns, Policies and Challenges  2. Social Security Agreement in Practice: Evidences from Europe  3. ‘Blue Card’: A Comment on the EU’s Preferential Immigration Visa for Attracting Human Capital vis-à-vis Its Own Multilateral Conundrum  4. Short-term Visa Requirement for Indian Nationals in the European Union  5. Social Security Benefits of Indian migrants in Europe: Loss or Win Situation in Case of Return?  6. Challenges and Opportunities for the Indian Migrants in EU in the Context of EU Enlargement and BREXIT  7. Migration of Indian Health Professional to the European Union: An Analysis of Policies and Patterns  8. BREXIT: Did a Perceived Threat of Immigrants divide a Country?  9. The New Student Migration Regime: Enhanced Opportunities for Indian Nationals Seeking to Study in the European Union?  10. Have the ‘London Dreams’ of Indian Doctors Come to an End?  11. Indians in Italy  12. Trafficking and Exploitation of Indian Labourers in Italy  13. Skilled Migration and IT Sector: A Gendered Analysis  14. "Being Indian" in the City of Oxford  15. Mechanisms Triggering Indian Students to the UK  16. When International Migration is a Failure: Panjabi Undocumented Migrants in France  17. All about My Skills, not Me or Mine: Vignettes of Precarity among Skilled Indian Professionals in the UK  18. Experiences of Indian "Bachelors" in the Gulf  19. Impact of Migration on Contemporary Demographic Transformation in Kerala  20. Out-migration and its Economic Impact on Households in Tamil Nadu

O autorze

S. Irudaya Rajan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. With more than three decades of research experience in Kerala, he has coordinated seven major migration surveys (1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2016) in Kerala (with Professor K. C. Zachariah), led the migration surveys in Goa (2008) and Tamil Nadu (2015), and provided technical support to the Gujarat Migration Survey (2010) and Punjab Migration Survey (2011). He has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration. Professor Rajan is currently engaged in several projects on international migration with the New York University, UAE Exchange Centre, India Centre for Migration of the Ministry of External Affairs, International Labour Migration and World Bank. He worked closely with the erstwhile Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India, Department of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs (NORKA), Government of Kerala and Kerala State Planning Board. He is currently co-chairing the working group on NORKA for the 13th five-year plan (2017–2022) of Kerala State Planning Board, Government of Kerala and is initiating the Kerala Migration Survey 2018, funded by the Department of NORKA, Government of Kerala. He is editor of the two Routledge series India Migration Report (annual) since 2010 and South Asia Migration Report (biennial) since 2017 and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Migration and Development.